The Opelousas Museum will host a free workshop Feb. 7, led by poet Randy Gonzales, where participants write poems inspired by ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

Discover poet Amanda Gorman’s best quotes and excerpts from poems to leave you feeling more energized and hopeful.

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Kimberly Blaeser, a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, will accept a prize from the National Book Foundation next month for her collection of poems, Ancient Light.

Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis Crisler leads a live round-robin poetry event Feb. 11 at Ball State’s Bracken Library. It's free ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts is preparing to welcome poet and playwright Court Dorsey, along with Grammy winning cellist Euegene ...

The Bedford Reader” is a widely used composition book that has included everything from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I ...